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which i'm very grateful i was now because that helped me as a television broadcaster, learning how to use and project your voice and not being afraid to get in front of people and speak. i joined the newspaper, and they gave me a column called division news. they were not homerooms then, but divisions, and my job was to go around to all the homerooms and interview people about what was going on with the people in their homeroom. >> host: great. >> guest: it was actually kind of a gossip column or something with who won the spelling bee or science fair, but i enjoyed so much having access that, me, carole, could talk to students and teachers and write them up and see my byline, oh, my goodness. it is -- it's kind of a heady experience. >> host: yes, indeed. you make the decision that this is going to be your life's work. >> guest: i loved it. i'm like, i loved this. the attention, the access, people coming up to me wanting to tell me information. >> host: right, right. >> guest: and i was a curious child who read a lot. i guess i was pretty nerdy, but it all worked, the reading, the writin
which i'm very grateful i was now because that helped me as a television broadcaster, learning how to use and project your voice and not being afraid to get in front of people and speak. i joined the newspaper, and they gave me a column called division news. they were not homerooms then, but divisions, and my job was to go around to all the homerooms and interview people about what was going on with the people in their homeroom. >> host: great. >> guest: it was actually kind of a...
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came to the floor and said that the demographic changes taking place in america made it incumbent upon us as a body to reform social security. two years later when the american people put a democrat in the white house, i renewed my call for action. i said that republicans ready to work with the president on entitlement reform, and i repeated that call again four months ago when the voters decided to put republicans in charge of the house of representatives. throughout this time i've held out hope that our friends on the other side would rise to the occasion. if not when republicans controlled the white house, at least when they did. i was encouraged further when president obama said repeatedly back in 2009 that his administration would seek to work with us on serious entitlement reform that preserves the safety net for our seniors, for people with disabilities and which also puts on a firmer, stable footing for generations to come. so the president has acknowledged the seriousness of the problem. he has noted himself that calls are escalating even as the population is getting older, creat
came to the floor and said that the demographic changes taking place in america made it incumbent upon us as a body to reform social security. two years later when the american people put a democrat in the white house, i renewed my call for action. i said that republicans ready to work with the president on entitlement reform, and i repeated that call again four months ago when the voters decided to put republicans in charge of the house of representatives. throughout this time i've held out...
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i always use as an illustratione the average cost for medicare beneficiaries in my home town of average springfield illinois the average $8,000. up okay? looker what to chicago, specialty hospitals and higher cost of living cos it's not 78,s eight to $10,000 a year for thee average medicare beneficiary. but then you go to miami and ths number is 14 to $15,000 a year.y why the t difference between chicago and miami? ask. there bet is there a better care and florida or just more expensive care? nn we bring theca cost of the care down and not compromise the quality of the care hardto hav questions the the only questiont is the account if you want tofie doesn't sacrifice the basic benefits. i would say to senator mcconneln is he quoted me i guess earlier in the statement but i wasn't on the floor. yesterday i said i was propose y supporting of the house republican budget with the budget proposed by senator is inouye.he this budget for the remainder oh $10 billion more out ofwe wouldh spending. we would cut $51 billion belowr. what president obama had asked for this year. reached 51. the in
i always use as an illustratione the average cost for medicare beneficiaries in my home town of average springfield illinois the average $8,000. up okay? looker what to chicago, specialty hospitals and higher cost of living cos it's not 78,s eight to $10,000 a year for thee average medicare beneficiary. but then you go to miami and ths number is 14 to $15,000 a year.y why the t difference between chicago and miami? ask. there bet is there a better care and florida or just more expensive care?...
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because it was why us? why me? why no aid from the u.s.? and they spent two solid weeks almost nightly and daily counseling the citizens of that area. so when we arrived with some of the supplies they needed to help these people which were not available, they were all-embracing. when we went to the airport to pick them up, though, we found they were missing. this was the administration of president hue way known for those things that presidents of that era are known for. so we asked about it, and nobody could find it. the second day we went back, and by now we're impatient because now we've seen these patients in the hospital, and we know how much they need this materials that we brought. so standing there in the hangar where they were supposed to be, i was finally referred to a man that looked are important. i was told he was one of the president's sons. and i went over to him, and i explained to him, you know, we photographed this material when it was being loaded off trucks onto air france planes, flown
because it was why us? why me? why no aid from the u.s.? and they spent two solid weeks almost nightly and daily counseling the citizens of that area. so when we arrived with some of the supplies they needed to help these people which were not available, they were all-embracing. when we went to the airport to pick them up, though, we found they were missing. this was the administration of president hue way known for those things that presidents of that era are known for. so we asked about it,...
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ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives and encouraged us and gave the encouragement and the direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. it would be worth the trouble coming and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago a few people in my life thought it was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. he said the man, quote, didn't base his rating on games won or lost, but on the record of the player in later life. what kind of man he had become. i had a couple of coaches like that his influence as i can still feel today. i still have a relationship mentors in my life today. and i found the sick be the cadiz and work ethic and and forced it on a daily basis. it toughened up my game and they gave me confidence to play with the best and to never, ever let the other team inside my head those are the strengths that will serve you well in any line of work. that will come in handy if you are a republican running for the political office in massachusetts. [laug
ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives and encouraged us and gave the encouragement and the direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. it would be worth the trouble coming and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago a few people in my life thought it was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. he said the man, quote, didn't base his rating on games...
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electronics are putting us into the future. but the big thing to remember, there's 408 million people in north america and maybe maximum 200 million people in south america. outside of our boundaries there's six billion people. you've got two sides of the hemisphere. we're the food producers of the world, and they're the producers of industrial products, and we developed this swap market which i learned how to do swaps there which is the most valuable thing i could have ever learned if my life, and we will propel, we will build jobs around the food industry just like china with their 17 vital trace elements will build steel and all of these things. but it's got to be a world of futures or -- >> and i have to say when i first started writing this, i had no idea what you just said. hopefully, if you read the book, you'll say, ah, i know what charlie's talking about. it sounds scary, but charlie knows all this because he knew it when he traded cattle, and there really is a progression so that what he says starts to make some sense
electronics are putting us into the future. but the big thing to remember, there's 408 million people in north america and maybe maximum 200 million people in south america. outside of our boundaries there's six billion people. you've got two sides of the hemisphere. we're the food producers of the world, and they're the producers of industrial products, and we developed this swap market which i learned how to do swaps there which is the most valuable thing i could have ever learned if my life,...
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i use this event at the beginning of the book to just -- because i think it helps us to apprehend the appeal of the underground readers in the 196 0s. they put across sharply argued and forcefully written opinions and grew out of their own subculture and was the examiner, the flag ship of the hearse newspaper chain uses this prefab bring kateed -- fabricated newspapers. they started emerging in the mid-60s. someone pointed out they technically represented one of the most large spontaneous groups in publishing. there were five related newspapers. there was the east villager, the fifth of state in detroit, and for me and matt because we went to michigan state, the first campus based newspaper was in east lancing, michigan. towards the end of 1966, the papers spouted up quickly in every pocket and region of the country. by the end of the 60s, there were hundreds of newspapers in every city, campus, community with a readership that stretched into the millions combined. people sometimes asked how i got interested into the topic. it started with my dissertation at columbia. first i used the
i use this event at the beginning of the book to just -- because i think it helps us to apprehend the appeal of the underground readers in the 196 0s. they put across sharply argued and forcefully written opinions and grew out of their own subculture and was the examiner, the flag ship of the hearse newspaper chain uses this prefab bring kateed -- fabricated newspapers. they started emerging in the mid-60s. someone pointed out they technically represented one of the most large spontaneous...
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comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live all weekend if you have missed any of the events that coverage will air tonight starting at 1:00 a.m. eastern. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] as it did to ship them across the atlantic. it was enormously difficult to access the wealth. there was a great transportation network, chicago, which was formed starting off on the illinois and michigan can now had a great wateree park rails only supplemented that transportation network every city and the major waterway for the river mead says c. where it meets the mississippi river.
comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live...
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one that really kept us occupied for much time. one explanation is because they are boys. they were very young when they came here, and they never really, you know, had a chance to grow in the chinese system. most of them never atepidded anything beyond -- attended the rudimentary level of chinese education. this culture is what they need. the second explanation that is more met metaphysical is that they were trained -- there's a famous poem that says a young boy who wants to be someone turns away from the window, sits down, and reads, and here they come to america where a young boy who wants to be someone gets on the baseball field and plays ball, rides a horse, takes a gun and shoots, dances with girls, is allowed to look his elders in the eyes. this is a revelation for them. they were extremely, extremely happy with it. the third thing i say is they came here at a time when the country was really, really, really thriving. you know, on the way on the transcontinental railroad, they could see things like the automated reaper and the plow, and there's an energy they felt a
one that really kept us occupied for much time. one explanation is because they are boys. they were very young when they came here, and they never really, you know, had a chance to grow in the chinese system. most of them never atepidded anything beyond -- attended the rudimentary level of chinese education. this culture is what they need. the second explanation that is more met metaphysical is that they were trained -- there's a famous poem that says a young boy who wants to be someone turns...
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this and most of us who live in d.c. think we with either have to go to private school, or we have to move out to the suburbs. i was born -- raised in public schools, so i'm a believer in that, but then the realities of what do you do for your own kids. and the question that i have for you, michelle, is, you know, you mentioned five years for a turn around in a high school. how much time do you think you needed here to really make a complete change? oops, sorry. you know, my son's elementary school is great. we love it, middle school isn't so much of a problem, but high school really is the sort of barrier, and what did you think if you could sort of project, what was your timeline in your head for, you know, a real change to be affected in the school system? >> repeat that from the perspective of a parent who, you know, doesn't have a lot of time to wait for schools to get better because their children only have one shot at an education. michelle, how, what was your timeline? how long do you think it really would have t
this and most of us who live in d.c. think we with either have to go to private school, or we have to move out to the suburbs. i was born -- raised in public schools, so i'm a believer in that, but then the realities of what do you do for your own kids. and the question that i have for you, michelle, is, you know, you mentioned five years for a turn around in a high school. how much time do you think you needed here to really make a complete change? oops, sorry. you know, my son's elementary...
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he uses that phrase, made or broken. he said, the coach will take the kids out of the camp and they will be made or broken, and so when i saw it, that was it. >> and what other books are you working on? >> well, i've written two previous books. one -- a bit about the first two, one is about a sharecropper, cotten picking boy at a mill worker. that's called "mill daddy." and another is "mother's dream" it's a story about a dream my mother had about watching my dad play baseball. well, my dad organized the baseball deal in the late 50s in indiana. it's about their friendship, their love, and it's more than a sports book in terms of that particular book. i have begun working on a book about grady caldwell because of what happened to him. grady who is a central figure in the book, he fell into the pit of drug use and addiction, and i interviewed him in prison, as a matter of fact for this book, but then there are other themes that emerge in his life, redemption and his family stuck with him, and now he's a minister in griffi
he uses that phrase, made or broken. he said, the coach will take the kids out of the camp and they will be made or broken, and so when i saw it, that was it. >> and what other books are you working on? >> well, i've written two previous books. one -- a bit about the first two, one is about a sharecropper, cotten picking boy at a mill worker. that's called "mill daddy." and another is "mother's dream" it's a story about a dream my mother had about watching my dad...
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i used i used the term is a catchall, multiculturalism, john dewey. from the reading i've done on the subject and i am not an educator, development in young children is afforded by the education system, which by the way happens to be dominated by women ironically. what is your take on progressive education? i mean what i'm trying to say io were children once start somewhere and it grows up with pseudo-self-esteem and so forth so could you address that please? >> well, i think christina has written about primary education and the way that it is unfriendly to boys. for one thing we have seen a big decline in, or a big transformation in the kinds of looks that students, young students are being asked to read. you won't find the adventure adventure books anymore, or not very much. different kinds of books that might have appealed to boys. i remember reviewing a book some time ago about the change in textbooks, history textbooks. and the writer there said that if you were to look at the updated textbooks, the post-feminist textbooks about the settling of t
i used i used the term is a catchall, multiculturalism, john dewey. from the reading i've done on the subject and i am not an educator, development in young children is afforded by the education system, which by the way happens to be dominated by women ironically. what is your take on progressive education? i mean what i'm trying to say io were children once start somewhere and it grows up with pseudo-self-esteem and so forth so could you address that please? >> well, i think christina...
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early in the game i couldn't use the word americans very easily in this book because everybody is an american. if you go back to about 1760, everybody is a tory essentially. they are all british subjects. and they see the king as the man they're going to worship every sunday as most of them were, they are going to pray for the king, and the wherewithal, there's only one trading partner and that england, and that's the way things were but as the revolution started to percolate and the sons of italy -- [laughter] wow, where am i? the sons of liberty started functioning in boston and new york. things started to change. and a group started to question the revolution. for a while it was a political debate. i can across the club that was formed in plymouth, it was formed in 1770 or 71. go ahead and look it up, it's in the book. and there was called the old colony club pity was founded primarily by descendants passengers on the mayflower. there isn't a better american pedigree to say you descended from the mayflower. a lot of the people who descended from the mayflower and the generation of
early in the game i couldn't use the word americans very easily in this book because everybody is an american. if you go back to about 1760, everybody is a tory essentially. they are all british subjects. and they see the king as the man they're going to worship every sunday as most of them were, they are going to pray for the king, and the wherewithal, there's only one trading partner and that england, and that's the way things were but as the revolution started to percolate and the sons of...
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that was a sort of heartfelt discovery for us. yes? [inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this young man was their second gift from god. he died of flu a few months after he hopped on a train. another one was murdered in new york city. really grisly and bad faith. but those who came back, many of them send their children to be educated in america. these children came back to china. a lot of third and fourth generation lived here. any other questions? >> my great-grandfather is in your book. >> oh my! >> i don't speak chinese. my last name is jane. you have expelled two way is. hy was known as great grandpa tie. >> there is a note in translation. we h
that was a sort of heartfelt discovery for us. yes? [inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this...
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my parents red to us every night. it instilled in us the love of reading. the more you read for pleasure, whatever it is, storyings, mysteries, adventure, comic books, nonfiction, whatever it is, read for fun. if you do that, you'll do very, very well the rest of your lives. ready to hear a story? [cheers and applause] >> green eggs and ham. have you heard that one before? i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that's sam i am. that's sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs and ham? >> i do not like them, sam i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. >> would you like them here or there? >> i would not like them here or there. i would not like them anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them, sam, i am. >> would you like them in a house? would you like them with a mouse? >> i do not like them in a house. i do not like them with a mouse. i do not like them here or there. i do not like them anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them sam i am. >> would you eat them in a box? would you eat them with a fox? >> no
my parents red to us every night. it instilled in us the love of reading. the more you read for pleasure, whatever it is, storyings, mysteries, adventure, comic books, nonfiction, whatever it is, read for fun. if you do that, you'll do very, very well the rest of your lives. ready to hear a story? [cheers and applause] >> green eggs and ham. have you heard that one before? i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that's sam i am. that's sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs...
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has been used to secure risk. we must remember what happened in terms of the collapse of freddie mac and fannie mae. what happened was congress directed that they buy a certain percentage of their portfolio and what were called affordable loans, which became subprime securities, which became 13% of their portfolio, which brought them down when is up subprime securities collapsed. if we all of a sudden decide to pass regulations to define a qualified residential mortgage that are so prohibitive that we run everybody through f.h.a., then we'll be putting a burden on f.h.a. and creating a situation of another collapse or another inability of the united states to meet housing needs through the private sector. and through we will underwritten loans. so my reason for coming to the floor is to send a message before the decisions are made to be thoughtful in determining what the parameters will be on qualified residential mortgage. yes, i do think an 80% or less loan should be qualified and avoid risk retention. but a wel
has been used to secure risk. we must remember what happened in terms of the collapse of freddie mac and fannie mae. what happened was congress directed that they buy a certain percentage of their portfolio and what were called affordable loans, which became subprime securities, which became 13% of their portfolio, which brought them down when is up subprime securities collapsed. if we all of a sudden decide to pass regulations to define a qualified residential mortgage that are so prohibitive...
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it's extremely useful for us to have a point of reference. somebody that we can talk to, somebody we can commission and work from if we require it. if we know, for example, there's a specific issue arising and say can you go out to the range of the agencies and get his reports and get us work brought in for certain time? and that, i think, has been very helpful. i also think it avoids duplication or triple cation. >> how has crisis management are you looking at how crisis management is done within the nsc or within whitehall and thinking of ways to improve it, change it? >> well, i think the nsc was originally conceived as what its name implies, a security council and its first writing task is strategic, not operational. it is not cobra. >> uh-huh. and it's, i think, quite important to hold that distinction between the large scale decisions that fought to be made and the widest set possibilities and to manage a particular situation. so nsc is strategic over tactical in those terms. >> that's roughly how i would describe it and i think my coll
it's extremely useful for us to have a point of reference. somebody that we can talk to, somebody we can commission and work from if we require it. if we know, for example, there's a specific issue arising and say can you go out to the range of the agencies and get his reports and get us work brought in for certain time? and that, i think, has been very helpful. i also think it avoids duplication or triple cation. >> how has crisis management are you looking at how crisis management is...
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she was one of us. she was on deadline. it was something any of us would have done to get our books in on the deadline into print. reading jackie was also running jackie and for the most authentic vision of that woman intent on getting one of her titles into print turn now not to a picture of her, but to the pages of one of her hundred books. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] i think we've got some time before seven o'clock for some questions, and i'd love to hear from you if you got questions about what i said or experience of your own that you'd like to bring to this, and i see -- i think i see a hand right there, and would you like me to repeat the question, or is there a mic on? go ahead, ma'am. >> did jackie have any particular literary agents she relied on? >> that's a good question. i think the answer is no. she -- scott moyers remembers she didn't like taking lunches with literary agents because there was a sense if she did it with one or two, everyone would want to have lunch with her
she was one of us. she was on deadline. it was something any of us would have done to get our books in on the deadline into print. reading jackie was also running jackie and for the most authentic vision of that woman intent on getting one of her titles into print turn now not to a picture of her, but to the pages of one of her hundred books. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] i think we've got some time before seven o'clock for some questions, and i'd love to hear...
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and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> absolutely. i have to say as a conservative i'm kind of bent towards private schools. what i found was that all of the founders were in favor of the public schools. but was it was important was what they thought should be taught and what should be taught was patriotic history, math and religion. >> any other revelation? >> there's a lot in there about guns. we are chapter about guns and gun ownership. i think a couple of the recent supreme court cases have pretty much reaffirmed what the founder said, which is gun ownership was meant to be an individual right, not just for personal defense, but so that the people coll
and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> absolutely. i have to say as a conservative i'm kind of bent towards private...
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it isn't always used. obviously our whole goal in reauthorizing is to provide much more flexibility than what exists today. those are a number of steps we have taken, are taking in the right direction, great conversations with governors and local students on this, and i think if we can reauthorize together we can take another very dramatic step in that direction. again, for me, the huge tradeoff in all of this is where we're raising standards. we're having a high bar. i want to hold folks accountable to that bar and give them a lot more room to get there. get out of the micro management. i think that is the tradeoff you're seeing around the country. it's the right thing for children and education and continue to push us hard to find ways to be more flexible, to be more innovative, to be less stove pipy, and if folks can spend less time dealing with us in the bureaucracy and more time teaching children to read, that would be a really good thing. we've met the enemy and it's us. we have a lot of different gr
it isn't always used. obviously our whole goal in reauthorizing is to provide much more flexibility than what exists today. those are a number of steps we have taken, are taking in the right direction, great conversations with governors and local students on this, and i think if we can reauthorize together we can take another very dramatic step in that direction. again, for me, the huge tradeoff in all of this is where we're raising standards. we're having a high bar. i want to hold folks...
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use what you've got. again, as connie and i both took what was a liability to us in our youth, we hated that feeling of being different, of not being good enough, of not measuring up. but that's what propelled us into leadership, what gave us the passion for the poor, for the sick, for those who needed help in whatever way. use what you've got. i learned to embrace controversy. i learned to love -- how many of you love controversy? [laughter] i knew there'd be a few here. [laughter] how many of you hate controversy? see, most people really back off of controversy. but what i learned particularly from having had the opportunity to lead, oh, arguably the most controversial social movement in the world is that controversy is actually your friend. if something is controversial, it means you're important. it means you have the platform. people are paying attention the you. and, you know, i was thinking this morning arizona is the only state, i believe, that has ever passed the martin luther king holiday by a v
use what you've got. again, as connie and i both took what was a liability to us in our youth, we hated that feeling of being different, of not being good enough, of not measuring up. but that's what propelled us into leadership, what gave us the passion for the poor, for the sick, for those who needed help in whatever way. use what you've got. i learned to embrace controversy. i learned to love -- how many of you love controversy? [laughter] i knew there'd be a few here. [laughter] how many of...
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i think it takes us away. i would say for myself that along with -- i'm happy to say -- and idealism that does not seem to be squashed entirely by experience of sad history over the last many years, a lord ambition of what is possible. i believed everything was possible. i am much more inclined now to a work and a small and local way. >> is that because of age, getting older, or what? do you attribute it at all to the just being older? >> no. no. >> okay. >> i attribute it to experience and believe it is, that the more ambitious, global goals are less realistically attainable than the small, humble ones. i think i attributed in part to raising children. that when you spent the last 30 some years raising children you focus on small. those under the old emissaries to the planet. >> or we used to say, you know, we wanted to change the world and the 60's. we have all heard the saying, all we can do is change ourselves. would anybody like to respond to that? how did what he became maybe contribute to idealism or lo
i think it takes us away. i would say for myself that along with -- i'm happy to say -- and idealism that does not seem to be squashed entirely by experience of sad history over the last many years, a lord ambition of what is possible. i believed everything was possible. i am much more inclined now to a work and a small and local way. >> is that because of age, getting older, or what? do you attribute it at all to the just being older? >> no. no. >> okay. >> i attribute...
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you used to use another metaphor i think about bullfrogs. what did you say? use and dealing with the senate is like keating bullfrogs in the barrel. you get them in there and then one jumps out and you just can't keep them in their they keep jumping out and that's one thing about senators, they are pretty experienced hands. a lot of them don't come to throw their weight around. a lot of them come with high goals for their country and what they want to do, but once they get their they do realize the rules and the power of the individual center. i didn't realize how much it was true until i got there but also with senators, a lot of the centers have been congressman, governors, they are a little older than the house and more experienced, and you can't put them down. i was a whiff in the house and the senate, and when i was the with 196 republicans it was easier to count those and count on them standing where they told you they were going to begin to count 46 senators and count on them being because first of all they were smart enough to know i'm not going to te
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the two of us went around large parts of kenya driving for hours and hours on end. people do have mobile phones they don't all switch them on. so i would have to find these people and stop and ask them and turn to the compound completely out of the blue. this white man suddenly saying president obama's grandmother's brother can i talk to people about this, and i just found university to the dhaka university people were open and friendly and they just loved to sit down and spend hours and are worse sitting under the shade of the tree is talking to people gradually which i then had to join together and of course the independent correlation and collaboration of what you found and a lot of things i was told that aren't in the books because i just couldn't make them stop. i couldn't make them stand up and so we went to the publication. >> host: i think one of the things striking about your conversations for the people who knew barack obama, senior is that to the end of his life they keep referring to him as barry. i say this because to an ordinary american reader it is a
the two of us went around large parts of kenya driving for hours and hours on end. people do have mobile phones they don't all switch them on. so i would have to find these people and stop and ask them and turn to the compound completely out of the blue. this white man suddenly saying president obama's grandmother's brother can i talk to people about this, and i just found university to the dhaka university people were open and friendly and they just loved to sit down and spend hours and are...
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asthma, doesn't provide us with a soup which makes us sick. the clean air act has been an enormous success in cleaning up our air. the republicans want to slash that by 30%. republicans want to cut the women and infant nutrition programs. this is the program that provides the -- the w.i.c. program that provides supplemental nutrition programs for women, infants and children. they want to cut that by $750 million. poverty in america is increasing. what we understand is that pregnant women and little kids do not get good nutrition, the likelihood is that they're going to get, that the births might be low weight opbd the little babies -- or the little babies might come down with illnesses if they don't get good nutrition. poverty is increasing, yet the republicans want to cut the w.i.c. program by $750 million, 10%. title 1 education funding. everyone understands we have problems with education right now, large dropout rates. republicans want to cut $5 billion from the department of education. on and on and on it goes. now, what do i think? do i
asthma, doesn't provide us with a soup which makes us sick. the clean air act has been an enormous success in cleaning up our air. the republicans want to slash that by 30%. republicans want to cut the women and infant nutrition programs. this is the program that provides the -- the w.i.c. program that provides supplemental nutrition programs for women, infants and children. they want to cut that by $750 million. poverty in america is increasing. what we understand is that pregnant women and...
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he says, help us out. they brought down his notes and his audiotapes and his unfinished manuscripts and said, we need your help. this is what christopher anderson writes. he spent six pages on this and a book that is obviously not done to support me. he has no interest in appealing to my audience. i read 80 reviews of christopher andersen's book. it was even on chris matthews. of those, do you know how many of them mentioned the single most newsworthy revelation and that. >> reporter: zero. it was at that moment that i knew, i know. my friends are saying, get your pulitzer prize speech ready. i said, you don't know this world as well as i do. and going to happen. zero out of 80. i went public. here is how the internet works. the people in the dead tree media don't understand or appreciate it. because the internet the press. my wife wonders why don't watch tv, an open sewer of untreated and unfiltered information. the internet existed in 1933 and 1933 and died like walter duranty would not have been able to
he says, help us out. they brought down his notes and his audiotapes and his unfinished manuscripts and said, we need your help. this is what christopher anderson writes. he spent six pages on this and a book that is obviously not done to support me. he has no interest in appealing to my audience. i read 80 reviews of christopher andersen's book. it was even on chris matthews. of those, do you know how many of them mentioned the single most newsworthy revelation and that. >> reporter:...
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it was eating us up with its costs. there were millions of americans who didn't have basic health insurance. there was a pretty broad agreement in the country that we needed to address that question and, obviously, president clinton had made it a major promise in his 1992 campaign. so we began looking at what the government and the political system was going to do with this problem. we had no idea when we began whether we were going to be chronicling a triumph or a disaster. it turned out for clinton and the democrats and, i think, for the country to be more of a disaster and, unfortunately, that's not the only issue on which government has failed to do something the people expected it to do. c-span: how did you and haynes johnson divide up the work? >> guest: well, haynes and i have worked together for a very long time, first at the old washington star, when it was in business, and then for many years at the washington post. we had collaborated on lots and lots of newspaper projects, so we were very accustomed to shari
it was eating us up with its costs. there were millions of americans who didn't have basic health insurance. there was a pretty broad agreement in the country that we needed to address that question and, obviously, president clinton had made it a major promise in his 1992 campaign. so we began looking at what the government and the political system was going to do with this problem. we had no idea when we began whether we were going to be chronicling a triumph or a disaster. it turned out for...
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and i am again grateful, very greatful to the judiciary committee for having us -- giving us the opportunity to vote for anthony battaglia, who's going to make a great judge for the u.s. district court for the southern district of california. thank you very much, and i yield the floor. mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: today we continue our efforts to lessen the burden of our overworked courts. we are, before the evening's out, going to confirm three more judicial nominees. two of the three nominees will -- we will vote on are for seats designated as judicial emergencies. with our actions today, it is only -- and we're only 22 days that the senate's been in session this year, the senate has confirmed 10 nominees. with these votes tonight, we will have confirmed 19% of president obama's judicial nominees submitted in this congress. this pace far exceeds the progress made at this point in the 108th congress, which was the beginning of the third year of president bush's presidency. at this point, the 108th congress had confirmed only four o
and i am again grateful, very greatful to the judiciary committee for having us -- giving us the opportunity to vote for anthony battaglia, who's going to make a great judge for the u.s. district court for the southern district of california. thank you very much, and i yield the floor. mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: today we continue our efforts to lessen the burden of our overworked courts. we are, before the evening's out, going to...
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it has taken us 20 years working with us. so don't forget about that. >> them are still not satisfied. >> which you have to find a way to work this out. >> thank you also much. i was a fascinating panel. i hope you have things you cannot take back to your organizations. barbara, sylvia, caroline, thank you for joining me up your. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the president of the american university in cairo predict to you today that moammar gadhafi would die as a martyr before giving up power in libya. keith andersen said she is optimistic about political outcomes in egypt and tunisia. she spoke for about an hour and a half at the carnegie endowment for international peace. >> already. thank you all for coming. this is another one of our series of country would've had a name in the region in general, but what is happening in each in particular. the events in egypt with the referendum and the start of a process stories gradual change in that country. but beyond, we are of course missing wha
it has taken us 20 years working with us. so don't forget about that. >> them are still not satisfied. >> which you have to find a way to work this out. >> thank you also much. i was a fascinating panel. i hope you have things you cannot take back to your organizations. barbara, sylvia, caroline, thank you for joining me up your. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the president of the american university in cairo predict to you today that...
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the british attempt to use them. and so in the end there were certainly little people involved in the mau mau insurrection but their numbers were very small. >> host: so he might've been set up and someone or someone basically falsely accused him. let me ask you, he comes home. he's scarred. sarah obama says he essentially became an old man during captivity. i want your opinion on a sort of interesting hypothesis here. one that i think brings all of this to light. when president obama came in to the white house, he noted that in the oval office it was a bust, a statue of winston churchill. it was reported both in britain and america that this unknown obama and he wanted to bust return. the british, a little chagrined because of a long-term special relationship that to obama, don't get it back to us. put it somewhere else. but obama sort of weirdly insistent and the buzz today is in the home of the british ambassador in washington, d.c.. it is innocent on british soil. for many americans the normal areas of understati
the british attempt to use them. and so in the end there were certainly little people involved in the mau mau insurrection but their numbers were very small. >> host: so he might've been set up and someone or someone basically falsely accused him. let me ask you, he comes home. he's scarred. sarah obama says he essentially became an old man during captivity. i want your opinion on a sort of interesting hypothesis here. one that i think brings all of this to light. when president obama...
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you used to use another metaphor i think about bullfrogs. what did you say? use and dealing with the senate is like keating bullfrogs in the barrel. you get them in there and then one jumps out and you just can't keep them in their they keep jumping out and that's one thing about senators, they are pretty experienced hands. a lot of them don't come to throw their weight around. a lot of them come with high goals for their country and what they want to do, but once they get their they do realize the rules and the power of the individual center. i didn't realize how much it was true until i got there but also with senators, a lot of the centers have been congressman, governors, they are a little older than the house and more experienced, and you can't put them down. i was a whiff in the house and the senate, and when i was the with 196 republicans it was easier to count those and count on them standing where they told you they were going to begin to count 46 senators and count on them being because first of all they were smart enough to know i'm not going to te
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>> no, no, you're ahead of us. you're ahead of us, buddy. you're ahead. we're way back. >> um, i think it spread because it went across the world, and i think china had it? >> yeah, but before china gets it, there's someone who brings -- there's a woman here on the end, marina. >> i think it was, i think it was the slaves. >> that's later. we're way back. we're in b.c., guys. we're way, way back. >> the australians? >> nope, no australians. >> ah. >> with the greeks? >> yes. alexander the great. if any of you remember the stories, alexander the great is conquering across from greece. he's conquering across iran. he's conquering -- he gets to the edge of india, and his troops say i won't go any further, i've gone as far as i'm going to go. but alexander is conquering, he has this hunger to know. alexander can never know enough. so he sends his friend in a boat saying go explore india, find out stuff for me. and the friend comes back and talk about the reed that gives honey though there are no bees. now, why would you describe sugarcane as the reed that giv
>> no, no, you're ahead of us. you're ahead of us, buddy. you're ahead. we're way back. >> um, i think it spread because it went across the world, and i think china had it? >> yeah, but before china gets it, there's someone who brings -- there's a woman here on the end, marina. >> i think it was, i think it was the slaves. >> that's later. we're way back. we're in b.c., guys. we're way, way back. >> the australians? >> nope, no australians. >> ah....
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he used it in his struggles with the old elites. i think you make such a compelling case of the eyes of this new american aristocracy against the old proprietor class and merchant class that was the revolutionary generation. they were the right people to run society. vanderbilt challenges them in a significant way. >> this is significant because fender bill is someone who is so often used in a prompt end to the logical arguments the with you should have regulation of robber barons or regulation of free market. i try to avoid making it the logical argument. there is an historical account. very important because to do that much of his life, the economy is different. the way people thought about these questions, it was a different world. for example, lays a share, the idea of limited one no government regulation today is considered a conservative idea. in vanderbilt's time it was a radical idea because he did not have large corporations. the economy was flatter. they fought of government intervention and the economy being chartering a
he used it in his struggles with the old elites. i think you make such a compelling case of the eyes of this new american aristocracy against the old proprietor class and merchant class that was the revolutionary generation. they were the right people to run society. vanderbilt challenges them in a significant way. >> this is significant because fender bill is someone who is so often used in a prompt end to the logical arguments the with you should have regulation of robber barons or...
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>> the was four of us. three -- i have an older brother, a young brother right in a row, and then we have a caboose, my sister, marty who came along 12 years after. >> when did you get interested in journalism? >> i got interested in journalism right in college. i started writing for the school paper, and it never left my blood. in fact, at o point, at berkeley i volunteered for a congressman for a while, and realized this was not for me. >> which one? >> dellums. >> what impact did that have on you? what was that like? >> it just wasn't what i was interested in. i think i am more of an observer than an advocate. i do better at telling stories and observing, and that's what i would like to do. >> what did you see at berkeley? anyone listening says, berkeley, these are conservatives. >> that's right. i think there was definitely -- funny when i look back on this, this is my generation, these folks are my age, and when i look back there was definitely a liberal orthodoxy on campus. "the daily cal" which i wor
>> the was four of us. three -- i have an older brother, a young brother right in a row, and then we have a caboose, my sister, marty who came along 12 years after. >> when did you get interested in journalism? >> i got interested in journalism right in college. i started writing for the school paper, and it never left my blood. in fact, at o point, at berkeley i volunteered for a congressman for a while, and realized this was not for me. >> which one? >> dellums....
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they are killing us. why would i build a manufacturing plant when i can build one over the border in canada and have a much better environment, but also, don't forgot that productivity played a huge role in the loss of manufactureing jobs in the united states, huge, and it's going to continue to. we are still the number one producer of stuff in the world. we outproduce china by a significant margin. we do more value, added stuff, they do less value added stuff, but we are still a huge producer, but we could be so much more competitive. you're absolutely right, and i look at corporate taxes as one of the things. yes, sir? >> i'm don armor. >> hey, don. >> the question is is it a trap to agree to with regard to the budget negotiations that everything is on the table because that basically says that for a dollar you're agreeing that a cut of a dollar in spending 1 going to probably have an increase in taxes to institutionalize the excess spending you referenced. >> yes, this is a big worry. if you were to pu
they are killing us. why would i build a manufacturing plant when i can build one over the border in canada and have a much better environment, but also, don't forgot that productivity played a huge role in the loss of manufactureing jobs in the united states, huge, and it's going to continue to. we are still the number one producer of stuff in the world. we outproduce china by a significant margin. we do more value, added stuff, they do less value added stuff, but we are still a huge producer,...
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up on booktv william coo and recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis who worked as an editor for doubleday and flaking. she never wrote a memoir of her own but her project selections as an editor mirrored her own personal interests. from among these were a history of thomas jefferson and his relationship with sally headings. a book on the assassination of john lennon and an effort to convince michael jackson to write a memoir. .. and it's true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. and think she may not have been willing to tell you herself about the 100 books she brought into print when she was an editor first of viking and then at doubleday for the last 20 years of her life, from 1975 to 1994. if anything, editors books are more indicative of her personality because they include what she has selected, invested time and. so what i'd like to do is tell you a story of those 100 books in a little bit about how they connect to her life in who she
tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up on booktv william coo and recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis who worked as an editor for doubleday and flaking. she never wrote a memoir of her own but her project selections as an editor mirrored her own personal interests. from among these were a history of thomas jefferson and his relationship with sally headings. a book on the assassination of john lennon and an effort to convince michael jackson to...
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ayers, narrative gentry can be useful to all of this. obama. truth is the best corrective. ayers, the mind works in contradiction, and honesty requires the writer to reveal disputes with the self. notice with the self. obama, but i suspect we can't pretend the contradictions of the situation will exist can do is choose. ayers, the reader must see the struggle not by the tourist what wyatt program. obama, and all and all of an intellectual journey i imagine for myself complete with last point and strict itinerary. ayers, narrative raptors strive for signature but must be aware of the struggle for the honesty. obama, i was engaged in a imperial struggle. someone -- by the way, this is the only postmodern bouck obama route. it shows up and nothing else he ever wrote except dreams from my father. there's not a word in any of the articles otherwise. also at that point in the postmodern fling as well the grooves in which they had fallen and even the stitch together nature of their lives these are distinctive freezes, and the other thing i'm reading in the fugitive days is that af
ayers, narrative gentry can be useful to all of this. obama. truth is the best corrective. ayers, the mind works in contradiction, and honesty requires the writer to reveal disputes with the self. notice with the self. obama, but i suspect we can't pretend the contradictions of the situation will exist can do is choose. ayers, the reader must see the struggle not by the tourist what wyatt program. obama, and all and all of an intellectual journey i imagine for myself complete with last point...
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won't even tell us that. but from talk to those trying to produce the coal, to produce the electricity for our country, they say they can't get permits. in fact, there's one coal company in kentucky who is now suing the federal government saying they're taking his property. they have effectively taken his property because he can't get a permit. the average expectancy for getting a permit for all property is seven years. we wonder why we're languishing and we depend on everyone else for natural resources. yet we sit atop some of the world's greatest natural resources in coal and oil and won't produce our own. we have to become so involved and there's so many justifications for war across the world because of oil and we refuse to use our own resources. this is a very good first step in trying to make the process better. all it's saying is the e.p.a. cannot have unlimited time to sit on our permits. this is saying that there have to be rules. i say this is a first step because i think the last election was about
won't even tell us that. but from talk to those trying to produce the coal, to produce the electricity for our country, they say they can't get permits. in fact, there's one coal company in kentucky who is now suing the federal government saying they're taking his property. they have effectively taken his property because he can't get a permit. the average expectancy for getting a permit for all property is seven years. we wonder why we're languishing and we depend on everyone else for natural...
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it isn't always used. obviously our whole goal in reauthorizing is to provide much more flexibility than what exists today. those are a number of steps we have taken, are taking in the right direction, great conversations with governors and local students on this, and i think if we can reauthorize together we can take another very dramatic step in that direction. again, for me, the huge tradeoff in all of this is where we're raising standards. we're having a high bar. i want to hold folks accountable to that bar and give them a lot more room to get there. get out of the micro management. i think that is the tradeoff you're seeing around the country. it's the right thing for children and education and continue to push us hard to find ways to be more flexible, to be more innovative, to be less stove pipy, and if folks can spend less time dealing with us in the bureaucracy and more time teaching children to read, that would be a really good thing. we've met the enemy and it's us. we have a lot of different gr
it isn't always used. obviously our whole goal in reauthorizing is to provide much more flexibility than what exists today. those are a number of steps we have taken, are taking in the right direction, great conversations with governors and local students on this, and i think if we can reauthorize together we can take another very dramatic step in that direction. again, for me, the huge tradeoff in all of this is where we're raising standards. we're having a high bar. i want to hold folks...
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she was one of us. she was on a deadline. is something any of us would have done to get our books in on the deadline into print. reading jackie was also running jackie, and for the most authentic vision of that woman intent on getting one of her titles into print turned out not to a picture of her, but to the pages of one of her 100 bucks. thank you very much. [applause] >> i think we've got some time before 7:00 for some questions. and i would love to hear from many of you. if you have questions about what i said or experience of your own that you would like to bring to this. i see a hand right there. and would you like me to repeat the question or to have a mic on her and she'll be okay? why don't you go ahead? >> -- any particular agent she relied on? >> unit, that's a good question. and i think the answer is no. scott moyers remembered that she didn't like taking lunches with literary agents, because there was a sense that if she did it with one or two, all of them would want to come and have lunch with her. and so, her m
she was one of us. she was on a deadline. is something any of us would have done to get our books in on the deadline into print. reading jackie was also running jackie, and for the most authentic vision of that woman intent on getting one of her titles into print turned out not to a picture of her, but to the pages of one of her 100 bucks. thank you very much. [applause] >> i think we've got some time before 7:00 for some questions. and i would love to hear from many of you. if you have...
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you have helped us get to over 100. can you please help us get to 300? the number one source of information on how people signed up for this pilot his family and friends. he well could be incredibly helpful to us in this area. commander, i'm going to ask nancy to resend her mission to today. if you see what considered this deletion. i can think of no greater source of communication to young veterans and the family and friends of the american legion community. i ask for your assistance humbly. [applause] you know, it's great that we've been come to a national conference in washington d.c. we need to remember that in america, 17% of americans live in rural america, but 37% of veterans live in rural america. for a long time, veterans from rural america have been underserved when it comes to employment. we realized this last year when we launched a pilot program in washington state, a very innovative partnership, will commit veterans service organizations, state government teams, corp. for community service, were the first time we get boots on the ground in
you have helped us get to over 100. can you please help us get to 300? the number one source of information on how people signed up for this pilot his family and friends. he well could be incredibly helpful to us in this area. commander, i'm going to ask nancy to resend her mission to today. if you see what considered this deletion. i can think of no greater source of communication to young veterans and the family and friends of the american legion community. i ask for your assistance humbly....
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so we certainly invite people to e-mail us, bring their books to our attention, send us their publicity packets so we know in plenty of time that it's coming, and we can decide whether it's one we want to take a shot at reviewing. >> mr. stewart, you said that a lot of your reviewers and people involved in the washington independent review of books have backgrounds in writing and publishing. what's your background, and give us a snapshot of some of the people who will be participating. >> well, my background is i was a lawyer for many years, but i'm now an author, have done a couple of books on american history, one on writing the constitution, the summer of 1787, one on the impeachment trial of andrew johnson, "impeached," and i have a new one coming out this fall called "american emperor." the other folks involved come from journalism, there are book writers as well. we've been so lucky in recruiting reviewers. we've got for a book on the eichmann trial in israel we were able to get judge patricia walt who was on the war crimes tribunal for yugoslavia. we've been able to get a leading
so we certainly invite people to e-mail us, bring their books to our attention, send us their publicity packets so we know in plenty of time that it's coming, and we can decide whether it's one we want to take a shot at reviewing. >> mr. stewart, you said that a lot of your reviewers and people involved in the washington independent review of books have backgrounds in writing and publishing. what's your background, and give us a snapshot of some of the people who will be participating....
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can you share that with us? >> yes, the budget would affect both of those things as i noted in my opening statement, we have asked for money in the fy12 budget to not only continue to securing the cities, but to add to it. >> securing the cities is protected, i believe, we can discuss that with secretary before and we will -- >> yes, i was referring to the other -- but it is true that in the fy12 budget, securing is city is sustained and we want to add another city to it. >> mr. quail. >> thank you for coming. there's been a lot of talk i think in this, with the budget about the cr that just went through the house and will be going through the senate and coming back probably, but one of the focuses in both the media and here has been what effects it is going to have on securing the southwest border. i just wanted to give a little lay of the land on how this is going. my look at it is going to be adding more agents, not decreasing agents. is increased funds by $147.9 million over what it was for fiscal year ten,
can you share that with us? >> yes, the budget would affect both of those things as i noted in my opening statement, we have asked for money in the fy12 budget to not only continue to securing the cities, but to add to it. >> securing the cities is protected, i believe, we can discuss that with secretary before and we will -- >> yes, i was referring to the other -- but it is true that in the fy12 budget, securing is city is sustained and we want to add another city to it....
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all of us. so i think that is the only type in the country. no other big mayors from big cities have meetings. we have meetings every four months and i am just a member, one of the founding members but a member today and i participate with other mayors rum the counties, all the counties around here, which is really important for us. a mayor from aurora and rockford in peoria come down and some from milwaukee and some of the indiana mayors, were to work with us on many issues so we are very proud of that. at the same time i believe the success of chicago has been a public-private partnership. you can go to hospitals, museums the business committee has been very very helpful in all aspects of the city and it really helps us tremendously to have the business community supporting us. that doesn't mean corporate headquarters or operations, local and federal and local taxes and other things, but that has been a key the key and no other city has it. see is more democrat been the business community so h
all of us. so i think that is the only type in the country. no other big mayors from big cities have meetings. we have meetings every four months and i am just a member, one of the founding members but a member today and i participate with other mayors rum the counties, all the counties around here, which is really important for us. a mayor from aurora and rockford in peoria come down and some from milwaukee and some of the indiana mayors, were to work with us on many issues so we are very...
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the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god, who has made and preserved us as a nation, make our lawmakers people of high vision and steadfast fidelity to your wisdom. use them to lift the banner of righteousness which exalts a nation. as they work together, deepen their understanding of one another's perspectives, so that they will treat their colleagues as they would want their colleagues to treat them. purge them from all that blemishes, corrupts, and defiles our common life. heal our land, lord, and use our senators as agents of your healing. we pray in your merciful name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., march 29, 2011. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3
the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god, who has made and preserved us as a nation, make our lawmakers people of high vision and steadfast fidelity to your wisdom. use them to lift the banner of righteousness which exalts a nation. as they work together, deepen their understanding of one another's perspectives, so that they will treat their colleagues as they would want their colleagues to treat them. purge them from all that blemishes, corrupts, and defiles our common life. heal our land,...
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they were used to my disappearing at night to use computers. my senior year of high school i skipped because there was a job i was offered which was an amazing job to work on this complicated computer project for trw, and i got to work with brilliant people and i got to learn more. the people i worked with my senior year of high school said you should skip college and get a h -- ph.d.. i bent went to my parents and say, yeah, i'm going to skip college. they said, well, actually, you should go to college, and that was good advice because in terms of social development -- i never finished my social development, but it helped. [laughter] >> when you were in high school you prepared a program that enabled you to get in classes with mostly girls as i understand it, so you met girls at that time. is that true? >> well, i wasn't good at meeting them, but, boy, they were nearby. [laughter] they tended to be the better looking girls for some reason. that's the beauty of being in charge of the computer scheduling as i decided when the classes met and who
they were used to my disappearing at night to use computers. my senior year of high school i skipped because there was a job i was offered which was an amazing job to work on this complicated computer project for trw, and i got to work with brilliant people and i got to learn more. the people i worked with my senior year of high school said you should skip college and get a h -- ph.d.. i bent went to my parents and say, yeah, i'm going to skip college. they said, well, actually, you should go...
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what do you want us to do now? all of them were united to making sure what was happening on time in july and the outcome of this and all of us in the campaign for that. so the general unity of all political parties were there. we have different views and never advocate a multi-party system, not one system. >> i have a question here in the center. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. i am poindexter and spent the last four years living and working in west africa, so the issue of aid always comes up and you mention the marshall plan so i wanted to get a sense of your ambassador ezekiel lol gatkuoth the anti a argument. there are arguments to create a cycle of dependency that kills entrepreneurship if you have a great phone lines that you do that entrepreneurs won't be able to work there and the marshall plan only works in countries where there are well-established institutions and that has been the case history. comment on those criticisms. .. >> i think the vision we are having is help us that we can help oursel
what do you want us to do now? all of them were united to making sure what was happening on time in july and the outcome of this and all of us in the campaign for that. so the general unity of all political parties were there. we have different views and never advocate a multi-party system, not one system. >> i have a question here in the center. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. i am poindexter and spent the last four years living and working in west africa, so the issue of...
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you can pretty much use every dollar use anything. and then, that would be what you would do because you guys know where to put your money. that was very, very clear. but from a political strategy standpoint, being willing to say to congress we understand, we have to rethink about what we need from the federal government, we are willing to maybe take some things off the table. and we are willing to streamline as was said, our own processes. we're willing to shell out transparent and accountable we can be. we are willing to use performance management, not just performance measurement. we are willing to help our industry paint a better picture. that's going to be important to the political situation. and we've heard this over and over again. and i know people are tired of hearing, the government, they just waste all that money you're or if they just been the money doing this, things would be fine. it's a hard reality to deal with, but we are in a place where now, more than ever, the transportation committee have to be willing to take so
you can pretty much use every dollar use anything. and then, that would be what you would do because you guys know where to put your money. that was very, very clear. but from a political strategy standpoint, being willing to say to congress we understand, we have to rethink about what we need from the federal government, we are willing to maybe take some things off the table. and we are willing to streamline as was said, our own processes. we're willing to shell out transparent and accountable...
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so this is vital to us. there have been some reductions in our audio engineer as we've moved to some automated -- to some automated systems but we are not forsaking our heritage which is the rich audio experience of public radio. >> so there's no diminution of audio quality from your perspective? >> that is in the -- i guess you could say the eye of the listener. it would be in the ear of the listeners, i suppose. but there are -- we have fewer audio engineers going to do field reporting and so not every story has a full crew. and in those cases perhaps you don't have some of the same layering and richness of sound but generally speaking we have really not heard any complaints from our listeners in any -- in any significant numbers at all about a diminution of our sound. >> okay. the question is arianna huffington got paid $300 million. couldn't npr one of the best brand names of business raise a huge amount of money running as a private company and run commercials. >> that's not who we are. we are public ra
so this is vital to us. there have been some reductions in our audio engineer as we've moved to some automated -- to some automated systems but we are not forsaking our heritage which is the rich audio experience of public radio. >> so there's no diminution of audio quality from your perspective? >> that is in the -- i guess you could say the eye of the listener. it would be in the ear of the listeners, i suppose. but there are -- we have fewer audio engineers going to do field...